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There is absolutely no doubt that this is a really magnificent book.
Scott Ezell previously wrote A Far Corner, about life among wood-carvers in south-eastern Taiwan (reviewed in the Taipei Times April 16, 2015). I rated that an instant classic. Now he has come up with a book about a journey from China’s Yunnan Province, through Sichuan, to Qinghai Province. It begins in Dali and ends in Golmud. He travels by bus, motorbike and hitch-hiking.
A Far Corner was a book without villains, but this new product has modern China as its devil incarnate. It’s the “empire” of the title, though it’s
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Col. Satish Singh Lalotra ‘There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity’ Gen Douglas Mac Arthur. World over national interests of various countries often pitch them up against rival countries with similar interests jockeying in a narrow time and space of the fast changing geopolitical situation affecting them in totality. In the last few years or so these rival interests have been more or less concentrated in Asia-Pacific region threatening world peace and order. It stands to […]